Has EMC NetWorker finished programming the VADP backup method properly?

Some vendors are talking about application aware VADP snapshots (SQL and
Exchange application can be backed up Full and non-full).

Is EMC NetWorker doing that today?

JW

2012/1/20 Catalin Scarlet <catalin.scarlet AT smartcontrol DOT ro>

> We are using VADP and it works fine in vSphere 4.1 environment. I would
> recommend to you to generate the procedure from Procedure Generator and
> take care about the requirements in order to obtain also a good performance.
>
> Cătălin Scarlet
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On
> Behalf Of Michael Leone
> Sent: 19 ianuarie 2012 19:14
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Vsphere Backups VADP or not?
>
> > Question for anyone out there using VMware Vsphere..
> >
> > We're currently using a mixture of traditional Networker client
> > backups and Esxpress image backups for our virtual machines.
> > Will be migrating to Vsphere 5 in the  near future so have to decide
> > on what path we take with our virtual machine backups.
> >
> > Thinking about upgrading from Networker 7.5 up to 7.6.2 and using
> > VADP, anyone out there using VADP backups, what do you think?
>
> I'm at 7.6.2, but vSphere 4.1 (hopefully v5 later in the year), and
> currently I am doing "traditional" backups (i.e., treating each VM as a
> separate NW client, exactly as I do the physical clients). So I would be
> interested in this topic, as well.
>
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